From: cvn AT interchain DOT nl (Kees van Veen)
Subject: Re: pause()
23 Feb 1998 04:06:14 -0800
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To: Gavin Lambert <uecasm AT geocities DOT com>
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Gavin Lambert wrote:
> 
> I'm trying to compile a UNIX application (the LambdaMOO server) under
> Gnu-win32, but have been experiencing some difficulties.
> 
> The program prefers to use virtual timers if possible (using setitimer &
> getitimer); are they available somewhere?
> 
> As part of its timer routines, it sets a SIGALRM handler, calls alarm(),
> and then pause().  pause() has a prototype in the standard headers (in
> sys/unistd.h), but ld reports that it cannot find the routine in the library.
> 
> Any suggestions?  And if I cannot use pause(), is there a function that
> performs a similar function?  (I am familar with C but have no UNIX
> experience).

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